CFB Zeitgeist Score
48
Mid-pack in the position cohort. Carried by rec tds at the 66th percentile.
Nate Boerkircher
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
204 REC YDS · 20 REC · 3 REC TD
Where He Ended Up · NFL
Jacksonville2026 NFL rookie season
#56Rd 2 · Pick 24
Jacksonville2026 NFL rookie season
TE · TEXAS A&M · SEC
Nate Boerkircher
- 4
- #87
- 6-4 | 250 lb
- Aurora, NE
Heisman Heat
#907
<1% win probability
Fan Belief
Awaiting
Player-specific FI not yet ingested. Falls back to team mood below.
Respect Gap
Awaiting
Coming online with player-level FI.
Reality Gap
Awaiting
Coming online with player-level FI.
ACCOLADE PROBABILITY
Heisman
<1%
TOP TE AWARD
Mackey
—
CONSENSUS
All-American
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Player Standing · 17 rungs
Tier 2 · StarterR07 · Impact starter
Impact starter. Producing measurable value above replacement.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Development Trajectory · receiving yards
2021–2025+1357%
Up 1357% from first season to most-recent.
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
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CFB
College
2 teams
NFL
NFL Draft
R2 · #56
Identity & Role
The durable bio layer: position, size, hometown, and roster role.
Recruiting Pedigree
How big the prospect was before college, and whether the later career arc beat that expectation.
| Class | Profile | Context |
|---|---|---|
| No recruiting profile is on file for this player. | ||
Transfer Arc
Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.
| Season | Move | Context |
|---|---|---|
| No transfer portal moves on file for this player. | ||
Heisman Lens · 2024 Season · Final
Where the player landed at the end of the listed season — final nowcast rank, win/finalist/ballot probabilities, and the cleanest official Heisman placement on file.
HIGH CONFIDENCE· through week 16Heisman Futures
Not yet listed on major futures markets.
No achievements unlocked yet this season.
Selector Grid · 2025
AP—
FWAA—
AFCA—
WCFF—
SN—
SI—
Selector recognition fills in once the major honors lists (AP, FWAA, AFCA, Walter Camp, Sporting News, SI) are scraped and ingested.
NIL · Recruiting · NFL Draft
Market value, pedigree & pro outcome
NFL Draft
2026 · Rd 2, Pick 24
#56 overall · Jacksonville
Today’s Hot-Take
The Hot-Take engine fires when this player’s percentile profile crosses a defensible threshold (top 10% in a cohort, 100+ snap sample). When it’s quiet, the model is honoring its “must be defensible” rule.
Anti-Take
PENDINGThe contrarian read fires when the rules-engine detects a stat that complicates the Hot-Take. Quiet here means the model hasn’t found a defensible counter yet — not that one doesn’t exist.
The Room on Nate Boerkircher
Fan sentiment · Awaiting signal
The Room reads fan conversation around a player — who’s talking, what they believe, and how that shifts. It publishes once weekly volume rebuilds; for most players that’s in-season, when game-week chatter spikes.
Cohort divergence map
Cohort divergence reads how different fanbases talk about this player. Returns once weekly mentions clear the publish floor.
Rival Radar
How rival fanbases talk about Nate Boerkircher
No rival-bucket mentions in the current season.
2025 Signature · 2025 season
Receiving TDs
3
count
All FBS WRs, min 20 receptions
National rank #222 of 531
Percentile vs All FBS WRs, min 20 receptions 58th
Why it matters
#222 of 531 All FBS WRs in receiving TDs — 3 TDs on 20 receptions.
Vs cohort
This player 3 (58th)
MODERATE · n=20 cohort 531
- Also strong
- Yards per reception#411 / 531
- Receiving yards (total)#498 / 531
Signature Moment
Week 3 at Notre Dame — 1 receiving_tds
Result W 41-40
The week the volume broke through — stacked 1 td at Notre Dame.
Season Pace · Projection
Where the receiving totals stand
Through 11g
204Rec yards
20Receptions
3Rec TDs
Per game
18.5Rec yards
2Receptions
0Rec TDs
Projected (13g)
241.1Rec yards
24Receptions
4Rec TDs
To hit 700-yard receiver (currently 204): needs 248/game over remaining 2.
To hit 1,000-yard receiver (currently 204): needs 398/game over remaining 2.
To hit 60-catch season (currently 20): needs 20/game over remaining 2.
To hit 80-catch season (currently 20): needs 30/game over remaining 2.
To hit 8 receiving TDs (currently 3): needs 2.5/game over remaining 2.
To hit 10 receiving TDs (currently 3): needs 3.5/game over remaining 2.
Why the profile pops beyond receiving
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
The most interesting thing about Nate Boerkircher is that he shows up in multiple game states. He is a receiver first, but the profile also includes designed touches and return-game juice, which means his value is not limited to a conventional route tree.
2025 Season · Final
Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.
Last season
TE season snapshot
2025 season snapshot | final
2025 season snapshot | finalData: CFBD player stats + local Heisman modelPeer context: same position + same level
Player identity What kind of player is this?
30-second read
What kind of player is this?
Receiving weapon against FBS receiving peers.
2025 Season · Final
2025 season snapshot | final
Receiving
REC
20 79th
YDS
204 77th
YPR
10.2 56th
TD
3 91st
Rushing
CAR
3 80th
YDS
5 51st
YPC
1.7 43rd
TD
1 94th
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 11 games
| Wk | Opp | REC | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 42-24vs UTSA | 2 | 17 | 8.5 | 0 | 13 | |
| Wk 3 | W 41-40@ Notre Dame | 1 | 11 | 11.0 | 1 | 11 | |
| Wk 5 | W 16-10vs Auburn | 1 | 9 | 9.0 | 0 | 9 | |
| Wk 6 | W 31-9vs Mississippi State | 1 | 7 | 7.0 | 0 | 7 | |
| Wk 7 | W 34-17vs Florida | 3 | 35 | 11.7 | 0 | 28 | |
| Wk 8 | W 45-42@ Arkansas | 4 | 29 | 7.3 | 1 | 12 | |
| Wk 9 | W 49-25@ LSU | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Wk 11 | W 38-17@ Missouri | 2 | 15 | 7.5 | 0 | 11 | |
| Wk 12 | W 31-30vs South Carolina | 3 | 40 | 13.3 | 1 | 19 | Season-high 40 yds |
| Wk 14 | L 17-27@ Texas | 1 | 8 | 8.0 | 0 | 8 | |
| Bowl | L 3-10vs Miami | 2 | 33 | 16.5 | 0 | 19 | |
| Total | 20 | 204 | 10.0 | 3 | 28 |
Season-by-season tables Career rows + per-season box score
Traditional history
Traditional Stats
Season rows up top, career context at the bottom.
Season context · Team result + system
2021Nebraska3-9HC: Scott Frost · Run-leaning
2022Nebraska4-8HC: Mickey Joseph · Run-leaning
2023Nebraska5-7HC: Matt Rhule · Run-heavy, slow tempo
2024Nebraska7-6HC: Matt Rhule · Balanced
2025Texas A&M11-2HC: Mike Elko · Run-leaning
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context
Advanced metrics second
Advanced Metrics
Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.
The tight end's share of the passing offense, which helps distinguish a featured receiving tight end from a secondary option.
A blended usage view that shows how often the offense flows through the tight end compared with other same-level peers.
Every percentile is compared against players at the same position and level, so an FBS quarterback is judged against FBS quarterbacks, not the whole sport.
The top tables stick to the stats fans already know from broadcasts and box scores. Advanced context is pushed underneath instead of replacing the basics.
Open full stat explorer
| Group | Metric | Value | Rank | Pct | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Receiving | Receptions | 20 | #102/475 | 79th pct | Volumevs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Receiving yards | 204 | #109/475 | 77th pct | Volumevs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Receiving TD | 3 | #45/475 | 91st pct | Scoringvs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Yards / catch | 10.2 | #212/475 | 56th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS TE |
| Usage | Pass share | 6.8% | #187/468 | 60th pct | Air-game usagevs FBS TE |
| Rushing | Rushing yards | 5 | #27/53 | 51st pct | Volumevs FBS TE |
| Rushing | Carries | 3 | #13/59 | 80th pct | Volumevs FBS TE |
| Rushing | Rushing LONG | 3 | #27/50 | 48th pct | Metricvs FBS TE |
| Rushing | Yards / carry | 1.7 | #31/53 | 43rd pct | Efficiencyvs FBS TE |
| Rushing | Rush TD | 1 | #5/62 | 94th pct | Scoringvs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Receiving LONG | 28 | #149/475 | 69th pct | Metricvs FBS TE |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 4.1% | #185/468 | 61st pct | Money-down loadvs FBS TE |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 4.0% | #199/468 | 58th pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS TE |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 3.5% | #170/468 | 64th pct | Early-down loadvs FBS TE |
| Usage | Role share | 3.5% | #175/468 | 63rd pct | Share of team offensevs FBS TE |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 3.3% | #184/468 | 61st pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS TE |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 2.9% | #268/468 | 43rd pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS TE |
| Usage | Rush share | 0.8% | #21/468 | 96th pct | Ground-game usagevs FBS TE |
Player Standing
Universal 17-step ladder. Tier pills below; accolade streams nested.
AWAITING CLASSIFICATION
On-team2-deepStartingRecognizedEliteApex
AWAITING CLASSIFICATION · Rung None of 16
Why he’s here
Standing classification populates when honors, Heisman, and roster signals all align.
What moves him up
What moves him down
Accolade streams
Status—Awaiting tracker
The Mackey award tracker integrates per-week probability once a dedicated scraper for this award lands. Confirmed past winners and finalists for this player will surface here.
Splits · Per-game
2025 season · 11 games
Home vs Road
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 2.0 | 23.5 | 11.0 | 0.2 |
| Road5g | 1.6 | 12.6 | 8.4 | 0.4 |
Win vs Loss
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins9g | 1.9 | 18.1 | 9.4 | 0.3 |
| Losses2g | 1.5 | 20.5 | 12.2 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 1.7 | 18.7 | 10.6 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 2.0 | 18.4 | 9.0 | 0.4 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the TE cohort
48Mid-pack
Production sits in the middle of the position cohort across the board.
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
Advanced Savant · TE · 2024
Percentile Card
Advanced opponent-adjusted percentile bars are coming soon for this player.
P4G5All FBS
Advanced Savant
Opponent-adjusted advanced metrics with a cohort filter.
Advanced opponent-adjusted metrics are coming soon for this player. Selected cohort: P4.
Peer Comparator · Fingerprint match
Three closest profiles by box-rate percentile
Nate BoerkircherTexas A&MRichie AndersonFresno State· 81% simLuke LindenmeyerNebraska· 80% simHayden HansenFlorida· 78% sim
Rush TDs
Rec TDs
Rush yards
Yards / catch
Receptions
Rec yards
Long catch
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Player DNA
The Complete TE
Dual-threat: blocks when needed, catches when needed. Coveted on both sides.
TE
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Dallas Payne’s 2025 season.
Dallas Payne
89%match
#2
Neal Johnson
81%
#3
Chamon Metayer
78%
#4
Jake Roberts
76%
#5
Elijah Sohn
74%
Matches Dallas on
TD rate
Yards / reception
Total EPA (college ability)
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a graduate, his production profile tracks closest to Joe Royer's graduate season at Cincinnati (2025).
Joe Royer
80%match
All-Big 12NFL Rd 5
#2
Lake McRee
All-Big Ten
73%
#3
Chase Curtis
72%
#4
Tanner Arkin
All-Mountain West
69%
#5
Keanu Hill
69%
Matches Joe on
TD rate
Total EPA (college ability)
Height
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Mike Elko
Pass share
45.8%
407 pass / 482 run
Plays / game
68.4
13 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
3.8%
286 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Coaching Lineage · 2021–2025
3 coaches2021
Jimbo Fisher
Texas A&M
2022
Jimbo Fisher
Texas A&M
2023era →
Elijah Robinson
Texas A&M
2024era →
Mike Elko
Texas A&M
2025
Mike Elko
Texas A&M
Played under 3 different head coaches: Jimbo Fisher, Elijah Robinson, and Mike Elko. Multi-era developmental context.
Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster
Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.
HometownAurora, NE
Height6'4"
Weight250 lb
Class4
PositionTE
Jersey87
No fields populated yet.
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Current teamTexas A&M
ConferenceSEC
Joined2025
Career arc5 season(s)
Trophy Case · Detail
Every honor on the ledger, broken out by stream and selector.
No formal honors on the ledger yet
All-America, all-conference, player-of-the-week, watch-list, and postseason awards land here when they're earned. The absence is the signal: most players never collect formal honors, and that's its own kind of context.
Honors Timeline
Season-end distinction and week-by-week recognition on one timeline.
| Season | Honor | Scope | Team / Selector | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No formal honors on the ledger yet. All-America, all-conference, weekly awards, watch lists, and postseason trophies land here when they’re earned. | ||||
Heisman By Year
Modeled rank and official finish by season.
| Season | Team | Role | Latest Model | Forecast | Win | Finalist | Official Finish | Points | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Nebraska | TE4 | #907 | #891 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | Big Ten |
| 2023 | Nebraska | TE4 | #2513 | #2734 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W19 snapshot | Big Ten |
| 2022 | Nebraska | TE4 | #2613 | #2961 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | Big Ten |
| 2021 | Nebraska | TE4 | #3116 | #3177 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | Big Ten |
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Texas A&M | SEC | TE | 4 | No. 87 | 6-4 | 250 lb | Aurora, NE |
| 2024 | Nebraska | Big Ten | TE | 4 | No. 87 | 6-4 | 250 lb | Aurora, NE |
| 2023 | Nebraska | Big Ten | TE | 4 | No. 87 | 6-4 | 250 lb | Aurora, NE |
| 2022 | Nebraska | Big Ten | TE | 4 | No. 87 | 6-4 | 250 lb | Aurora, NE |
| 2021 | Nebraska | Big Ten | TE | 4 | No. 87 | 6-4 | 250 lb | Aurora, NE |